Police: Robber says $2 not enough 'to pay for my daughter's diapers'

A Bethlehem robber wasn't happy with the loot he got Tuesday from his teenage victim, city police said.

"You only have two dollars?" Nixon J. Montalvo-Velez asked the 17-year-old boy, according to court records. "How am I supposed to pay for my daughter's diapers?"

Now, Montalvo-Velez has bigger problems to worry about. He is in Northampton County Prison under $25,000 bail, facing charges that include robbery, receiving stolen property, terroristic threats, simple assault and reckless endangerment.

Montalvo-Velez, 20, of the 500 block of Ontario Street is accused of robbing the teen about 1:45 p.m. after hitching a ride with him from a bowling alley on Stefko Boulevard. Armed with a box cutter, Montalvo-Velez ended up getting away with more than just a couple of bucks, police said, also taking a cellphone and a third dollar he found on the floor of the car.

"Do you want to get stabbed?" Montalvo-Velez threatened when the boy balked at handing over his cellphone, police said.

According to the police account:

The boy told investigators that while he was bowling at Town and Country Lanes, a man later identified as Montalvo-Velez approached him and briefly borrowed his phone to make a call.

After the boy finished bowling, he was at his car in the parking lot when the same man came to the window and knocked, asking if he had change for a $20 bill.

The boy didn't, and Montalvo-Velez asked for a ride for a couple of blocks, which the boy agreed to, letting him get into the front passenger seat.

The boy said Montalvo-Velez directed him to the Marvine-Pembroke neighborhood and had him stop at Fritz Drive and Merriman Court. But there, Montalvo-Velez pulled out the box cutter and robbed him before hopping into another car that had just pulled up on Fritz Drive.

Police tracked that car's license plate number to Alexa Kuilan of the 1000 block of Essex Court, who admitted she picked Montalvo-Velez up at the intersection. She said Montalvo-Velez had been in her home about 10 minutes before police arrived, but officers found him hiding under a bed on the second floor during a search.

Officer Blake Kuntz said the description the boy gave of his robber matched that of Montalvo-Velez, who "has a child that is in diapers." The boy identified Montalvo-Velez in a photo lineup, with the stolen phone recovered at the home of the mother of the defendant's child.